On 12/13/06, Artur Fijałkowski <wiki.warx@gmail.com> wrote:

2006/12/13, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@gmail.com>:
> On 13/12/06, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske@googlemail.com > wrote:
> > On 12/12/06, Bence Damokos <bdamokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I do not think this is good enough to celebrate. I'd welcome a tool that
> > > > would allow us to move properly licensed free images from wikipedias to
> > > > commons. Now I'd celebrate then.
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > *ahem*
> > > >
> > > > http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/pushforcommons.php
> > >
> > > Is there a way, to have the one-click upload feature in the ImportFreeImages
> > > extension made available in the pushforcommons as well?
> >
> > PushForCommons uses CommonsHelper, which already has that option. But,
> > it is currently hidden, as all one-click uploads are then attributed
> > to a Commons upload bot. There was concern it might be abused. Now, if
> > there were consensus to enable this publicly, and if the toolserver
> > databases were back...
>
> I will continue to push very strongly that any toolserver-based tool,
> which does not require any kind of Wikimiedia login, should never
> allow essentially anonymous uploads to Commons, as this would. Many,
> many many Wikimedia wikis have lax, nonexistent or not-inforced image
> use policies. If we were to enable this all sorts of shit would be
> transferred and we would have no way of even identifying who had
> transferred it. All the cleanup and even no one specific to blame. ;)
> Not cool.
> So probably any tool like this should be part of MediaWiki. So we know
> what that means, chaps: settle in for a good long wait, or else write
> it yourself (and then settle back for that wait anyway...).
>
> cheers,
> Brianna
> user:pfctdayelise

Sad but true - I would be same as with LonardoG, who was ''only''
moving ''free'' images from his own wiki, but we blamed him for
copyvios (I think we were 100% right).

I someone gives to everyone such toy, he MUSTto know, that he takes
responsibility for that (cause of that my IRC bot interface needs
authorization and userrights for uploading).

AJF/WarX
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